No. My password was not longer than 8 chars -- ie, it was exactly 8 chars -- and if that was the reason, given that I've have continued with the same password ever since the PM passwords were reset after the DB was hacked(*); it would be one almighty coincidence.

And I do not believe in coincidence.

(*) A vulnerability that has never been corrected because t'Queen decided, concluded, entirely unilaterally, that "It was too difficult to correct"; so your userid; and mine; and every other monks password and id are completely vulnerable to trivial attack, because one, demigodic, autocratic; lazy-assed God-head decide it should be so.

Comment on Re^4: Who gave (and continues to give) Tye McQueen his authority for his autocratic domination of PerlMonks?

I take objection to your baseless accusations against tye. The storage of plaintext passwords has not been changed due to tye "concluding entirely unilaterally". It is my decision, and while there is code waiting for activation, I have not completed the set of changes necessary.

So you are saying that no one has had time to fix the problem over the past several years??? Ever consider handing the reins over to members that do have the time to be active leaders? It seems like the majority of the gods are so busy elsewhere, that most of you should step down and let others take over running the site. If you are worried about the direction of the site, then set up a mostly hands-off oversight committee. Or create a new group (demigods?) with pretty much the same privileges as the gods, and let them take on the majority of leadership responsibility. I will nominate tye and jdporter for demigods (tye can stay as a god as well, the idea would be that the active leadership are in demigods).